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Using Web2.0 tools in the Enterprise
Source: http://blog.hbs.edu/faculty/amcafee/index.php/faculty_amcafee_v3/freedom_is_overrated/
I can easily imagine a boss saying "Gang, let's not use EnTwitter (or whatever the enterprise version is called) to talk about how we felt about lunch. Let's just use it to swap ideas on the Belle Jolie account." Within an enterprise ... formal policies and informal norms can shape, if not dictate, what constitutes an acceptable contribution by a community member. Because Twitter is largely a platform, compliance with this type of policy can easily be monitored.
Social tools that are overlaid with norms and policies, in other words enterprise social tools, can still be highly freeform and foster emergence. They can still be fun to use and highly useful for individuals, and also generate value for the group or the organization as a whole. Intranet versions of social networking software will clearly be different from their Internet ancestors. In some ways, I think, they'll actually be better, because they'll be less full of superfluous stuff that annoys many people, but that can't easily be turned off or filtered out.
Enterprise equivalents of today's Facebook and Twitter will probably be more bland, but they might also be more addictive. Knowledge workers might visit them more often throughout the day if they know that when they do they'll find content, rather than clutter.
How will you Fix the bug !!!!
Remove this bug from code................
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#include <stdio.h >
#define LAST 10
int main()
{
int i, sum = 0;
for ( i = 1; i < = LAST; i++ )
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sum += i;
}
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printf("sum = %d\n", sum);
return 0;
}
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#include stdio.h;
#define LAST 10
int main()
{
int i, sum = 0;
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for ( i = 1; i < = LAST; i++ )
{
sum += i;
}
/*-for-*/
printf("sum = %d\n", sum);
return 0;
}
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The easiest way to avoid chicken-and-egg problem
Del.icio.us, for example - it's just a bookmark manager that happens to be more useful as more people use it.
It's also possible to beat chicken-and-egg problems through sheer determination - after all, Reddit, YouTube, FaceBook, Snaptalent, and various other Web 2.0 companies have achieved it. The way to do it seems to be to make sure you're passionate enough about your own product to use it yourself (like submitting your own stories to Reddit, or how we all created 3-4 sockpuppets at inAsphere and had conversations with ourselves on the forums) and to get out there and put it in front of lots of other people. It's that last point where we failed: we just kinda built the product, launched it, and let it die.
It really helps to have a passionate, committed cofounder here. It's pretty difficult both to improve the product (which is critical if you want to show users that you really care enough to be in this for the long term) and to evangelize it.
From: http://diffle-history.blogspot.com
How GMail cross-sells GNews on Gmail ...
we know about cross selling .. but this was an amusing way !! These guys are creative ....
Orkut Scraps to Mobile idea
Don't rush to think about the possibilities - the idea has already been implemented !!
PowerScrap Advantages
- Multiple scraps – send messages to several friends
- New Skins - Change the color of your Orkut
- PowerScrap Radio
- Orkut communities' Chat room
- Send YouTube videos and media in your scrap.
- One unified account for all Orkut profiles
- Confidential Scraps
- Access your PowerScrapTM from your cell phone!
- Power Dating (coming soon)
- And much more...
Localization / Usability feature - case Justdial.com
Now Change the city in the first textbox and see how the tip below the "Enter an Area" textbox changes based on the city selected. Such small things, and not a over-hyped but little useful - local lannguage support - make a website "locally aware" than anything else
Also note that the "Select City" textbox's onClick behaviour has been altered to display an overlay with cities to select from - a much efficient replacement to the single column dropdown that most other websites use.
I would call it thinking with your head - these small details make a website user friendly. Localization and Usability will be the deciding factors in making websites useful to Indian audience.
Vista XI vs World XI
this time customers are saying, "no thanks". It no longer feels inevitable and XP looks just fine as a stop-gap. Cloud computing feels more inevitable. The browser is all that matters, maybe Silverlight, Gears and other ways to tie the PC to the cloud. So Firefox goes from strength to strength, Apple is on a roll and Google Apps get taken seriously.Vista has some cool stuff under the hood. But that's like saying telling people your car has a revolutionary new carburetor when the engine keeps stalling and the back wheel just fell off.
Specifically, Vista has all the network stuff that Ray Ozzie needs to make his P2P vision (re-drafted as Mesh) into a reality. Vista adoption would also drive IPv6 and that enables P2P at a totally different level. P2P matters because it puts PC horsepower back as the driver and that of course makes the OS the driver again. P2P search for example could disrupt Google. P2P video could disrupt YouTube.
But those are all pipe-dreams if Vista stumbles and falls coming out the gate. And Vista seems to stumble and fall all the time.
Make a website without making one
Check out http://www.gnipcentral.comThis website has only one 'web-page' i.e. its homepage. When I say webpage - I mean as in coded in HTML ans stored on a dedicated webserver to serve the page. All other pages are simply Google Documents directly linked from this page.
Why is this useful ..
- Its cool !! ;-)
- You can create pages so easily - no need to bother with HTML formatting etc
- Downloading document in other formats (.doc, .rtf) is made possible without needing any coding
- The BIGGEST one - you can edit the documents easily and the updated copy would always be online without any version control required. (best to maintain things like API's which Gnip is using it for)
Tagging - the next Search Killer?
Tagging is quietly but massively disruptive. The fact that thousands of webmasters and bloggers tag their content so that they can be found by Google is Google's secret weapon. But it could get turned against them. A small incentive to be found by other search engines will change tagging behavior. This is likely to play out in lots of vertical niches, where a small change in tagging behavior can make a huge difference in findability and that can make a big difference to both buyers and sellers. Whether people use RDF or Microformats or some other defacto vertical standard will continue to be the subject of much debate, but the format itself is not the issue. The human drive to tag (to order one's world) is deep and strong and has financial motivations as well.
Gandhian Engineering
http://www.itvidya.com/gandhian-engineeringOn the final day of Hi-Tech Pune, Dr. Mashelkar gave a very inspiring talk on the theme of Innovation led Inclusive Growth.He highlighted several problems of India, and how they are being tackled by some very innovative entrepreneurs who are becoming the change agents.
Jaipur Foot: the foot treatment would otherwise cost $20,000 in U.S, has been made affordable for only $28 , almost 1/100th of the price, and with much superior features and functionalities.Other such innovation is Tata Nano Car.
Another very good example was Kohli led TCS team which developed the Computer Based Functional Literacy, which is based on the theories of cognition, language and communication. This is meant to tackle the large illeteracy problem and solve it in a few years. The early results are very encouraging and it being a low cost solution, anyone can become literate in $2.5, which means now with a $2 billion investment, it will be possible to make the entire world literate.
Start-ups cash in on craze for family photos
ZoomIn finds mention in today's HT (Mumbai edition): Start-ups cash in on craze for family photos'HindustanTimes ePaperZoomIn pays Jhaveri 75 per cent of revenues it makes from his photos that it prints and delivers. Jhaveri, whose business with his clients earlier ended when he handed them photos on a video CD, fixes his own price on these prints, and makes extra money with no effort from his side. In an attempt to increase revenues and expand reach in a nascent digital printingThey are trying to tap into a unique opportunity India offers: a large event photography market, created by a near-obsessive need for pictures taken at weddings, engagements and family functions. For good reason. "Unlike in the US, professional photographers contribute close to 50 per cent of the photo printing business here," says Sunny Balijepalli, co-founder, ZoomIn which is conducting pilots with such people in Mumbai, Pune and Ahmedabad, in addition to addressing end-consumers.
Statistics are hard to come by but a Gartner, Inc. study estimated the Indian digital camera market in 2006 at $110 million (Rs 473 crore) growing at 20 per cent to 22 per cent annually.
The advantage with this model, companies say, is it creates large single-point photo sources. For example, Jhaveri has uploaded more than 40,000 photographs on ZoomIn. Non-resident Indians, he says, order more prints online after attending, say, a wedding. There are other reasons for targeting the pros.
Mermain - P2P videocon software
http://mermaid.metaaso.com
Mermaid allows end-users to do large scale video conferencing, exchange live-wire information, create online radio stations and broadcast movies and live audio - video feeds directly from their home computers and an home network, by using Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technology.
With an revolutionary new advertising platform, you can even serve your own video, html, text and audio advertisements to your million user global audience.
Seclore - Distrubuted Document Usage Control
Incubated and promoted by IIT Bombay, Seclore Technology develops innovative solutions in the area of information usage control. An enterprise's most important asset is its data, and Seclore recognizes the importance of keeping this information secured and protected.
Seclore has achieved industry leadership in the area of information usage control, information rights management, enterprise DRM through its range of products. Some of the largest corporations use Seclore offerings to secure data that is contained in Files, Folders or provided to a vendor for outsourced processes. These corporations belong to various industries like financial services, engineering and education etc.